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“I want to decompose in a bog” well you clearly don’t know the first thing about bogs. Clout chaser
memento mori
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just a little scrapbook where i reblog posts on the topic of death and posts that celebrate life and history. no original content. content warning for death, possibly unreality and occaisonally outdated language
When Karen Nyberg lived on the International Space Station, she and NASA invited crafters from around the world to join a project to stitch together a global community quilt. Karen stitched a 9” square star-themed quilt block in space and encouraged others to create their own star-themed quilt blocks on earth. NASA received over 2400 quilt squares from around the world. A team of NASA and Johnson Space Center volunteers quilted the squares together and created 28 king sized quilts. The panels spanned the globe and the completed quilts represent a truly interconnected world. (source)
Costume pour La Comtesse d’après Anna Maria Heinrich pour La Dame de Pique, Opéra de Lyon. via
Pictured Knowledge, 1916
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Vintage Moschino Fall 1989 Leather Jacket with Floral Appliqué Details
Luzon Bleeding-Heart (Gallicolumba luzonica)
thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived
For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.
This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.
At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:
